Word: crater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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King Solomon's Mines is as rich in scenery as it is in make-believe. The principals are trapped in a sandstorm, in a burning thatched village, in a gurgling underground crater which erupts upon their entrance. Majestically pictured is Paul Robeson, scaling peak and precipice, chanting Mighty Mountain-I'm Going to Climb You. For some spirited shield-whacking and spear-hurling filmed in South Africa, Director Robert Stevenson hired 5,000 native Impingi. who were reluctant to act because they thought they were being drafted for a new European war. Good shot: Robeson digging for water...
Last week Dr. Nininger learnedly described operations on a meteoritic site in Kiowa County. Kansas, which he believes to be the world's first complete excavation of a meteorite crater. Some 300,000 separate fragments were recovered there, ranging from 85 Ib. down to tiny grains. Assistant Secretary of the Society for Research on Meteorites is Dr. Nininger's wife, Addie Delp Nininger...
...wish to call attention to a mistake in TIME, May 31. On your centre page ads concerning Caterpillar Tractors it says that Crater Lake is in California...
...Trench crater...
Died. Mrs. George H. Shurtleff, mother of Mrs. Edith Crater Beach, wife of Author Rex Beach, and Mrs. Allene Crater Stone, wife of Actor Fred Stone; in Sebring...